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Quote:A young man who wishes to remain a sound Atheist cannot be too careful of his reading. There are traps everywhere--'Bibles laid open, millions of surprises,' as Herbert says, 'fine nets and stratagems.' God is, if I may say it, very unscrupulous.[C.S. Lewis]

Quote:No tears in the writer, no tears in the reader. No surprise in the writer, no surprise in the reader.[Robert Frost]

Quote:The secret to humor is surprise.[Aristotle]

Quote:When we got into office, the thing that surprised me the most was that things were as bad as we'd been saying they were.[John F. Kennedy]

Quote:The greatest thing you can do is surprise yourself.[Steve Martin]

Quote:The most fundamental fact about the ideas of the political left is that they do not work. Therefore we should not be surprised to find the left concentrated in institutions where ideas do not have to work in order to survive.[Thomas Sowell]

Quote:If all the girls who attended the Yale prom were laid end to end, I wouldn't be a bit surprised.[Dorothy Parker]

Quote:History is merely a list of surprises. It can only prepare us to be surprised yet again.[Kurt Vonnegut]

Quote:Since a politician never believes what he says, he is quite surprised to be taken at his word. [Charles De Gaulle]

Quote:When I was born I was so surprised I didn't talk for a year and a half. [Judith Martin]

Quote:It shouldn't be too much of a surprise that the Internet has evolved into a force strong enough to reflect the greatest hopes and fears of those who use it. After all, it was designed to withstand nuclear war, not just the puny huffs and puffs of politicians and religious fanatics. [Penn Jillette]



Definitions of: surprise

Definition: The act of coming upon, or taking, unawares; the act of seizing unexpectedly; surprisal; as, the fort was taken by surprise.

Definition: The state of being surprised, or taken unawares, by some act or event which could not reasonably be foreseen; emotion excited by what is sudden and strange; a suddenly excited feeling of wonder or astonishment.

Definition: Anything that causes such a state or emotion.

Definition: A dish covered with a crust of raised paste, but with no other contents.

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